Primary Event Schedule

12PM: $1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event

• WPTDeepStacks Final Table Seat and Counts
• WPTDeepStacks Main Event Payouts

12PM: Event 24 – $570 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• $75,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
• Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 30-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• Single ante will be paid from the big blind for the entire table
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 24 Structure Sheet

2PM: Event 23 Day 2 – $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)

• Event 23 Day 2 Counts and Seat Assignments
• Event 23 Payouts

5PM: Event 25 – $1,100 Big Stack Pot Limit Omaha (Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 40-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 7
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 25 Structure Sheet

5PM: Event 20 Day 2 – $150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• Event 20 Day 2 Chip Counts
• Event 20 Day 2 Table and Seat Assignments
• Event 20 Payouts

Secondary and Satellite Schedule

9AM: Event 69 – $200 Event 24 Turbo Satellite (1-in-5)

• 2 seats guaranteed into LHPO Event 24
• Players begin with 10,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 69 Structure Sheet

3PM: Event 70 – $200 Turbo No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)

• Players begin with 15,000 in chips and 15-minute levels
• Late registration/re-entry available until start of Level 9
• This is a one-day tournament and plays until completion
• Event 70 Structure Sheet

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 115

Day 1 of the $1,650 Purple Chip Bounty comes to an end with eight players remaining. Here are the official chip counts and seating positions:

Seat 1.  Brandon Eisen  –  240,000  (30 bb)
Seat 2.  Philip Wojtuniecki  –  611,000  (76 bb)
Seat 3.  Jaime Wiegrefe  –  181,000  (23 bb)
Seat 4.  Manny Tarich  –  525,000  (66 bb)
Seat 5.  Brad Coultas  –  245,000  (31 bb)
Seat 6.  Corey Burbick  –  105,000  (13 bb)
Seat 7.  Jeff Hakim  –  287,000  (36 bb)
Seat 8.  Romain Follet  –  121,000  (15 bb)

And here is the remaining prizepool, followed by the players who have already finished in the money:

1st:  $33,922 + LHPO Trophy
2nd:  $20,988
3rd:  $12,535
4th:  $8,050
5th:  $6,095
6th:  $5,060
7th:  $4,370
8th:  $3,853

9th:  Nick Yunis  –  $3,393
10th:  Danny Monosson  –  $2,990
11th:  Anthony Zinno  –  $2,990
12th:  Kenneth Frey  –  $2,990
13th:  Chad Trentacosta  –  $2,588
14th:  Adam Adler  –  $2,588
15th:  Tony Ruberto  –  $2,588

These final eight players will return tomorrow (Tuesday) at 2:00 pm EST to play down to a winner.

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Day 2 Blinds: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 65 of 507

Flight A:  165 Entries; 23 Advanced
Flight B:  342 Entries; 42 Advanced
Day 2:  Tuesday at 5:00 pm

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Day 2 Blinds: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining: 65 of 507

Flight A:  165 Entries; 23 Advanced
Flight B:  342 Entries; 42 Advanced
Day 2:  Tuesday at 5:00 pm

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 115

Romain Follet raised from the button to 16,000, Brandon Eisen moved all in from the small blind for 83,000, and Follet called with .

Eisen turned over , and needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came , and Eisen won the pot with two pair, aces and nines, to double up in chips.

Brandon Eisen  –  178,000  (30 bb)
Romain Follet  –  144,000  (24 bb)

A short while later, with the final board showing and about 47,000 already in the pot, Manny Tarich checked from the hijack, and Corey Burbick moved all in from the button for 32,000.

Tarich asked for a count before he called with for a pair of fours, but Burbick turned over to win the pot with a pair of kings and double up in chips.

Corey Burbick  –  111,000  (19 bb)
Manny Tarich  –  512,000  (85 bb)

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 8 of 115

With the board showing on the turn and about 200K already in the pot, Philip Wojtuniecki moved all in under the gun for about 290,000, covering Nick Yunis, who was UTG+1 with about 100K in his stack.

Yunis tanked for a long time before he eventually called with for ace high. But Wojtuniecki turned over for a pair of fours. Yunis would need a king on the river to stay alive.

The river card paired the board with the , and Wojtuniecki won the pot with two pair, sixes and fours, to eliminate Yunis in ninth place.

Philip Wojtuniecki  –  590,000  (98 bb)
Nick Yunis  –  Eliminated in 9th Place  ($3,393)

This was the second top-10 finish of the day for Yunis, who was finished 10th in the Main Event this afternoon to earn $19,380.

The final eight players have an average chip stack around 288,000 (48 big blinds).

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 115

With two players eliminated almost simultaneously, the final nine players combine to the final table. Here are their updated chip counts:

Seat 1.  Brandon Eisen  –  95,000  (16 bb)
Seat 2.  Philip Wojtuniecki  –  404,000  (67 bb)
Seat 3.  Nick Yunis  –  212,000  (35 bb)
Seat 4.  Jaime Wiegrefe  –  224,000  (37 bb)
Seat 5.  Manny Tarich  –  620,000  (103 bb)
Seat 6.  Brad Coultas  –  248,000  (41 bb)
Seat 7.  Corey Burbick  –  60,000  (10 bb)
Seat 8.  Jeff Hakim  –  190,000  (32 bb)
Seat 9.  Romain Follet  –  230,000  (38 bb)

And here are the payouts they’re playing for:

1st:  $33,922 + LHPO Trophy
2nd:  $20,988
3rd:  $12,535
4th:  $8,050
5th:  $6,095
6th:  $5,060
7th:  $4,370
8th:  $3,853
9th:  $3,393

They will continue playing until the end of this level, and then stop for the night.

2019 Lucky Hearts Poker Open
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 21
$2,500 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  144
Prize Pool:  $327,600
January 20-21, 2019

Aften over ten hours of play Event 21 $2,500 No Limit Hold’em has reached a winner. Ramon Miguel from Spain cruised his way through the final table defeating Yossi Galimidi heads up for the trophy. Event 21 boasted a field of 144 entries easily surpassing the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool.

The twenty six year old has been playing poker recreationally for five years and turned professional two years ago. “It feels very good, this is my first first place finish”

Miguel had great things to say about the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino “My girlfriend lives down here so I play at this casino a lot. The tournaments are always very good value, big fields, I like it a lot.” “The property is great and this poker room is incredible”

Day 2 started with twenty-three players returning and Denis Cyr led the pack. Ralph Massey was eliminated on the very first hand of the day when his ace five couldn’t catch up against Cyr’s pocket sevens. Shortly after was Ted Mcnamara at the hands up the eventual champion Ramon Miguel.

Carlos Rodriguez Rojas was the bubble boy when his pocket jacks got cracked by Ramon Miguel’s flopped straight. The remaining eighteen players were all guaranteed a payday of at least $5,979.

Brian Hastings was the first player to finish in the money when he was eliminated by Steve Karp. Next to go was former SHRPO Champion Victor Figueroa in seventeenth place. Florida poker pro Toby Boas became the sixteenth place finisher when he lost a coin flip to runner up Yossi Galimidi.

Action slowed down considerably until Matt Bretzfield busted in eleventh place to create the talented final table. Here’s how they stacked up:

Seat 1: Yossi Galimidi – 240,000
Seat 2: Ory Hen – 97,000
Seat 3: Huicun Qiao – 236,000
Seat 4: Denis Cyr – 187,000
Seat 5: Steve Karp – 225,000
Seat 6: Aaron Massey – 164,000
Seat 7: Ramon Miguel – 570,000
Seat 8:Brad Albrinck – 452,000
Seat 9: Paul Domb – 480,000
Seat 10: Jessica Dawley – 177,000

Ramon Miguel  said “The day went smooth sailing, it started very well and ended very well”. He scored most of the knockouts at the final table including Jessica Dawley in tenth, Steve Karp in seventh, Huicun Qiao in sixth, and Aaron Massey in fifth.

It was four in a row when the hand that was the most pivotal to Miguel happened. “The turning point was when I had kings versus queens and I flopped quads against his full house” to eliminate Ory Hen in fourth place and take a massive lead three handed.

After a few double ups Miguel got the best of Paul Domb when he made kings full of aces over Dombs trip aces to eliminate him in third place.

“Heads up was alright, he played well but I had a lot of chips and thats a big advantage” After about forty minutes of heads up play Galimidi ran his into Miguel’s . The ace high held and Miguel won his first ever tournament. Miguel took home $91,562, the LHPO trophy as well as his framed winners photo courtesy of Image Masters.

Final Results:

1st:  Ramon Miguel  –  $91,562 + LHPO Trophy
2nd:  Yossi Galimidi  –  $57,658
3rd:  Paul Domb  –  $34,234
4th:  Ory Hen  –  $20,639
5th:  Aaron Massey  –  $16,052
6th:  Huicun Qiao  –  $13,432
7th:  Steve Karp  –  $11,630
8th:  Bradford Albrinck  –  $10,336
9th:  Denis Cyr  –  $9,156
10th:  Jessica Dawley  –  $8,026
11th:  Matthew Bretzfield  –  $8,026
12th:  Tzai Phua  –  $8,026
13th:  Michael Stashin  –  $6,962
14th:  Jose Parra  –  $6,962
15th:  Toby Boas  –  $6,962
16th:  Ronit Chamani  –  $5,979
17th:  Victor Figueroa  –  $5,979
18th:  Brian Hastings  –  $5,979

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Re-Entry)
$100,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 17: 3,000/6,000 with a 6,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 115

Chad Trentacosta and Adam Adler were eliminated in 13th and 14th places, respectively.

Chad Trentacosta  –  Eliminated in 13th Place  ($2,588)
Adam Adler  –  Eliminated in 14th Place  ($2,588)

Kenneth Frey limped under the gun for 5,000, Anthony Zinno moved all in from UTG+1 for 57,000, and Frey tanked for a while before he called with . Zinno turned over , and needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came , and Zinno won the pot with two pair, aces and queens, to double up in chips.

Anthony Zinno  –  127,000  (25 bb)
Kenneth Frey  –  75,000  (15 bb)

A short while later, Frey was all in from the cutoff for 62,000 with , but he was dominated by the of Jaime Wiegrefe in the small blind.

The board came , and Wiegrefe won the pot with a rivered ace-high straight to eliminate Frey in 12th place.

Jaime Wiegrefe  –  245,000  (49 bb)
Kenneth Frey  –  Eliminated in 12th Place  ($2,990)

A short while later, after the blinds increased to 3,000-6,000 with a 6,000 ante, Anthony Zinno was eliminated in 11th place.

Anthony Zinno  –  Eliminated in 11th Place  ($2,990)

When Zinno was eliminated, there was already a hand in progress at the other table between Nick Yunis and Danny Monosson.

Monosson was all in for 98K with , and he was a favorite to double up against the of Yunis, who barely had him covered with 101K.

But the board came , and Yunis flopped a set of eights and rivered quads to win the pot and eliminate Monosson in 10th place.

Nick Yunis  –  212,000  (35 bb)
Danny Monosson  –  Eliminated in 10th Place  ($2,990)

$150 No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 15: 2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Flight B Players Remaining: 42 of 342

There were 342 entries for Day 1B of the $150 No Limit Hold’em event, and after 14 levels, only 42 remained at the end of the day.

Nathan Grow was the massive chipleader with 536,000 (134 big blinds), more than twice as much as anyone else in this flight. Coincidentally, the same situation happened yesterday in Flight A, when Ignas Jasinevicius finished with 449,500 (112 big blinds), more than twice as many chips as anyone in that flight.

The full list of official chip counts and the seat draw for Day 2 will be posted later tonight.